We bring you the latest updates from Defrafarmingfeed through a simple and fast subscription.
We can deliver your news in your inbox, on your phone or you can read them here on this website on your personal news page.
Unsubscribe at any time without hassle.
Defrafarmingfeed's title: Farming – Updates from Defra's Farming and Countryside Programme
Is this your feed? Claim it!
Precision Plants founders Mark Turner, left, and Charles Clowes, right, holding hemp DNA. With Defra funding, Precision Plants and project partner the University of Hertfordshire, with input from Rothamsted Research, will advance the development of climate resilient, high value industrial hemp.
We’re awarding funding to 15 projects across England that will help turn cuttin...
Credit: Roger Lomas
Local Nature Recovery Strategies (LNRSs) are locally developed plans that bring together ecological evidence, land use data and local knowledge. They show where nature recovery is most needed and most likely to succeed.
LNRSs are existing plans, published online, so they are a ready-made resource farmers can use to help plan a profi...
Credit: Stephen and Helen Jones
Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) testing has always been a required part of the
Credit: Becky Briggs
A mandatory, standardised system for classifying sheep carcases and reporting prices is now in force.
The new system will help ensure sheep carcases are classified in a fair and consistent way, bringing the sheep sector into line w...